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Disney Going All In On 'Star Wars' With Boba Fett And Han Solo Spin-Offs

Is it possible to have too much Star Wars in the world? Disney clearly doesn’t think so. The Mouse House has already scheduled a seventh film in the Star Wars saga to be directed by J.J. Abrams and scheduled to hit theaters in 2015. Now comes reports that Disney will begin exploiting the broader Star Wars universe with spin-off movies featuring Han Solo and Boba Fett.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the films will take place during the time frames of the original three movies (which, if you remember, took place after the last three movies) which would mean characters like Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt could be included.

Han Solo is one of the best-known character from the Star Wars franchise. As portrayed by Harrison Ford, Solo was the Rick Blaine of the film — the reluctant smuggler hero.

Boba Fett might not be as familiar to people who are not die hard Star Wars fans. The metallic bounty hunter captured Han Solo and encased him in carbonite. He’s a fan favorite though and a good starting point for Disney to test the waters for expanding on lesser-known characters.

Disney paid $4 billion for LucasFilm back in October with the hope of continuing and growing the franchise for a new audience. Choosing Abrams, who helped reboot the Star Trek franchise at Paramount, was a safe move but not one that everyone was happy about. It will be interesting to see who they tap for the spin-offs. Hopefully they’ll go with some unexpected choices. Warner Bros., had great luck bringing in off-beat directors like Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell on the Harry Potter franchise.

Disney has brought in Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi to help write the new movies.

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I’m not sure I would want a Han Solo film. Don’t get me wrong, I love the character, and I’m sure there is the potential for a lot of great smuggler-era Han Solo stories to be told, but I’m just not sure I could ever get behind the idea of Han Solo portrayed by anyone but Harrison Ford. It would just feel wrong.

I’m entirely okay with a Boba Fett film though. He’s always been one of those characters that I just didn’t “get”. I mean he has a super-hardcore following, but as far as I can tell he really does do much besides wear cool armor and get killed by a blind Han Solo. I could see action film (like a Jason Stathem-styled film) about his bounty hunting working really well.

“I think they’ll have to have some human origin story about Fett. I don’t know his history but I can’t see people getting really involved in a story about a robot.”

If you read back story books written about Star Wars, you would know that Boba Fett comes from a tribe of sorts of bounty hunters, The Mandalors, hence the name for his armor. Boba Fett hates the Jedi because a Jedi killed his father..Han solo has had many bounties on his head that Boba Fett has tried to collect many times..Yes I am a Star Wars nerd..